Improvement in refrigerating show-cases



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

THOMAs L. HANKIN, OF LYNDON, xANsAs, Assrenon TO HIMsELF AND D. W.ROOKWELL, OF ELYRIA, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN RFRIGERATING SHOW-CASES.

Specification forming part of -Letters Patent No. 112,493, dated March7, 1871.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS L. RANKIN, of Lyndon, in the county of Osage,and in the State of Kansas, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Refrigerator Show- Case; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters ot' referencemarked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a refrigerator show-case or window, as will be hereinafter more fullyset forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my :inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, whichrepresents a vertical section of a refrigerator show-case.

A represents the bottom, and B the baek,'of my show-case, made solid, ofany suitable material. The front C, as well as the sides and thelid D,are provided with double glass, as

shown, leaving a dead-air chamber between theglass. At the upper edgeot' the back B is `attached a `V-shaped pan, E, extending downward tonear the bottom of the case, in which pan the ice is to be packed. Inthe bottom of this pan are one or more holes for the ,water to pass outand into a trough, G, from In cases where a show-window is to be madeinto a refrigerating-window for exhibiting perishable articles topassersby, the ice-pan isto be arranged above, giving it a fall of aboutfour inches to the foot, which would gather the melted frost orcondensed moisture to the lowest part of the pan, where it would begathered in troughs and conducted to outlet.

These show-cases can be made to show any kind of perishable goods fordays without deterioration, and at the same time be very attractive topassers-by, exhibiting a'glistening frost when the thermometer may be1000 out side.

The restaurantkeeper can expose his cold dishes; the butcher his meatsin a deliverycase as he drives aroundV town; the iish, oyster, and gamedealers can have their whole Windows arranged on this plan, and on thecondensation plan, without any air-space, by one thickness of glass.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the show-ease AB O D, icepan E, trough G, andoutletftube a, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for thepurposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this2d day ot' January, 1871.

THOS. L. RANKIN.

Witnesses:

E. H. WEAVER, JOHN H. OBRIEN.

